Dog Songs : thirty-five dog songs and one essay

Dog songs [large print] : thirty-five dog songs and one essay

Poems. Selections

Thorndike Press Large Print Basic

Thorndike Press large print basic series.

Dog songs : thirty-five dog songs and one essay

Poems. Selections

West wind : poems and prose poems

Seven white butterflies -- At Round Pond -- Black oaks -- The dog has run off again -- Am I not among the early risers -- Pilot snake -- So -- Spring -- Stars -- Three songs -- Shelley -- Maples -- The osprey -- That sweet flute John Clare -- Sand dabs, three -- Forty years -- Black snake this time -- Morning walk -- Rain, tree, thunder and lightning -- The rapture -- Fox -- Gratitude -- Little summer poem touching the subject of faith -- Dogs -- At the shore -- At Great Pond.

If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me? -- You are young. So you know everything. -- And the speck of my heart ... -- But how did you come burning down ... -- There are night birds, in the garden ... -- When the sun goes down ... -- We see Bill only occasionally ... -- The young, tall English poet -- And what did you think love would be like? -- Dark is as dark does. -- Now only the humorous shadows ... -- The cricket did not actually seek ... -- It is midnight, or almost. -- Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches.

The Bill Martin Jr. big book of poetry

Big book of poetry

The pasture / Something told the wild geese / Mice / Caterpillars / The wolf / A bird came down the walk / Baby chick / A kitten / Crocodile / Foxes / The woodpecker / Weather / Clouds / Who has seen the wind? / The muddy puddle / Fog / Spring rain / The rainbow / What is pink? / Open house / The little rose tree / Afternoon on a hill / Metaphor / Sleeping outdoors / The star / Until we built a cabin / Wise / Taking turns / To look at any thing / Hurt no living thing / The months / New Year's Day / To my Valentine / March winds and April showers / April rain song / Green grass & dandelions / Autumn / October / The last word of a bluebird / Thanksgiving day / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Happy Hanukkah! / Christmas song / City song / Skyscraper / Subways are people / Climbing / In the woods / Knoxville, Tennessee / Child of the sun / Postman's song / The park / So many nights / Manhattan lullaby / Once upon a time / First day of school / Pick me, please / SOS / Take a number / I brought a worm / Ten little caterpillars / Word builder / Under the microscope / Poor substitute / The swing / I've got an itch / Papa says / This tooth / Bursting / My shadow / I am running in a circle / My dog / Vacation / Kick a little stone / I keep three wishes ready / The dark / Bed in summer / If I were in charge of the world / Painting the gate / My star / Dreamer / Grandpa's stories / in daddy's arms / Promises / A social mixer / My little sister / Some things don't make any sense at all / I love you little / On eating porridge made of peas / I eat my peas with honey / Speak clearly / Let there be pizza on earth / Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / Oodles of noodles / Herbert Glerbett / O sliver of liver / Beans, b

Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver

Poems. Selections

From Felicity -- I wake close to morning -- This morning -- The world I live in -- Whistling swans -- Storage -- For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E. I know someone -- That little beast -- The pond -- I have just said -- The gift -- From blue horses -- After reading Lucretius, I go to the pond -- I don't want to be demure or respectable -- Stebbin's gulch -- Franz Marc's blue horses -- On meditating, sort of -- Lonliness -- Do stones feel? -- Drifting -- Blueberries -- The vulture's wings -- What gorgeous thing -- From dog songs -- The storm -- Percy (one) -- Little dog's rhapsody in the night Percy (nine) -- Benjamin, who came from who knows where -- The dog has run off again -- Bazougey -- Her grave -- The poetry teacher -- The first time Percy came back -- From a thousand mornings -- I go down to the shore -- I happened to be standing -- Three things to remember -- Lines written in the days of growing darkness -- An old story -- The instant -- Tides -- The poet compares human nature to the ocean from which we came -- Life story -- Varanasi -- From swan -- I worried -- I own a house -- Don't hesitate -- Swan -- Passing the unworked field -- How I go to the woods -- On the beach -- From evidence -- Violets -- We shake with joy -- It was early -- With thanks to the field sparrow, whose voice is so delicate and humble -- A lesson from James Wright -- Almost a conversation -- To begin with, the sweet grass -- Evidence -- Prayer -- Mysteries, yes -- At the river Clarion -- From the Truro bear and other adventures -- The other kingdoms -- The gift -- Coyote in the dark, coyotes remembered -- From red bird -- Night herons -- Mornings at Blackwater -- The orchard -- Sometimes -- invitation -- From this river, when I was a child, I used to drink -- We should be well prepared -- Meadowlark sings and I greet him in return -- Of the empire -- Red -- Night and the river -- Self-portrait -- With the blackest of Inks -- From thirst -- When I am among the trees -- When the roses speak, I pay attention -- Six recognitions of the Lord -- Gethsemane -- The poet thinks about the donkey -- Praying -- Doesn't every poet write a poem about unrequited love? -- On thy wondrous works I will meditate The chat -- Thirst -- From new and selected poems: volume two -- Hum -- Lead -- Oxygen -- White heron rises over Blackwater -- Honey Locust -- Song for autumn -- Fireflies -- The poet with his face in his hands -- Wild, wild -- North country -- Terns

From blue iris -- Just lying on the grass at Blackwater -- Sea leaves -- Morning at Blackwater -- How would you live then? -- How the grass and the flowers came to exist, a god-tale -- From why I wake early -- Why I wake early -- Spring at Blackwater: I go through the lessons already learned -- Mindful -- Lingering in happiness -- Daisies -- Goldenrod, late fall -- The old poets of China -- Logos -- Snow geese -- At black river -- Beans -- The arrowhead -- Where does the temple begin, where does it end? -- From long life -- Just as the calendar began to say summer -- Can you imagine? -- Softest of mornings -- Carrying the snake to the garden -- From owls and other fantasies -- The dipper -- Spring -- While I am writing a poem to celebrate summer, the meadowlark begins to sing -- Catbird -- Backyard -- From what do we know? -- Summer poem -- The loon -- Winter at Herring Cove -- Mink -- Blue iris -- You are standing at the edge of the woods -- The roses -- Stones -- One hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day -- From the leaf and the cloud -- Flare -- From the book of time -- From west wind -- Have you tried to enter the long black branches -- Seven white butterflies -- At round pond -- Black oaks -- Am I not among the early risers -- Fox -- From the poem "West Wind" -- From white pine -- May -- Yes! No! -- In Pobiddy, Georgia -- Porcupine -- Wrens -- Mockingbirds -- I found a dead fox -- Morning glories -- August -- Toad -- I looked up -- The sea mouse -- From new and selected poems: volume one -- The sun -- Goldenrod -- When death comes -- Whelks -- Goldfinches -- Poppies -- Water snake -- White flowers -- Peonies -- The egret -- Rice -- Rain -- Picking blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 -- October -- From house of light -- Some questions you might ask -- The Buddha's last instruction -- The summer day -- Spring -- Little owl who lives in the orchard -- The kookaburras -- Roses, late summer -- White owl flies into and out of the field -- Singapore -- The hermit crab -- The kingfisher -- The swan -- Turtle -- The loon on Oak-Head pond -- Five A.M. in the pinewoods -- Some herons -- From dream work -- One or two things -- Morning poem -- Wild geese -- Shadows -- The journey -- Poem -- Two kinds of deliverance -- Black snakes -- 1945-1985: poem for the anniversary -- The sunflowers -- From American primitive -- August -- The kitten -- Moles -- Clapp's pond -- First snow -- Ghosts -- Skunk cabbage -- The snakes -- White night -- The fish -- Humpbacks -- A meeting -- The roses -- Blackberries -- Tecumseh -- In Blackwater woods

From three rivers poetry journal and "three poems for James Wright" -- At Blackwater Pond -- The rabbit -- Three poems for James Wright -- From twelve moons -- Sleeping in the forest -- Snakes in winter -- Music lessons -- Entering the kingdom -- The night traveler -- Beaver moon-the suicide of a friend -- Last days -- The black snake -- The Truro bear -- Mussels -- Snow moon-black bear gives birth -- Strawberry moon -- Pink moon-the pond -- Aunt leaf -- Farm country -- The lamps -- From the river Styx, Ohio -- Learning about the Indians -- Going to Walden -- Night flight -- From no voyage and other poems -- No voyage -- Jack -- Beyond the snow belt -- The swimming lesson -- On winter's margin -- The return -- Morning in a new land.

New poems

Neue Gedichte.

Early Apollo -- A Girl's Lament -- Love Song -- Eranna to Sappho -- Sappho to Eranna -- Sappho to Alcaeus -- Gravestone of a Young Girl -- Sacrifice -- Eastern Day Song -- Abishag -- David Sings before Saul -- Joshua's Council -- Departure of the Prodigal Son -- Olive Orchard -- Pieta -- Song of the Women to the Poet -- Death of the Poet -- Buddha -- L'Ange du Meridien -- Cathedral -- Portal -- Rose Window -- Capital -- God in the Middle Ages -- Morgue -- Prisoner -- Panther -- Gazelle -- Unicorn -- Saint Sebastian -- Donor -- Angel -- Roman Sarcophagi -- Swan -- Childhood -- Poet -- Lace -- Woman's Fate -- Convalescent -- Grown-up -- Tanagra -- One Going Blind -- In a Strange Park -- Farewell -- Death Experience -- Blue Hydrangea -- Before the Summer Rain -- In the Salon -- Last Evening -- Portrait of My Father as a Youth -- Self-Portrait from the Year 1906 -- King -- Resurrection -- Flag Bearer -- Last Count von Brederode Eludes Turkish Captivity -- Courtesan -- Stairs of the Orangery -- Marble Wagon -- Buddha -- Roman Fountain -- Carousel -- Spanish Dancer -- Tower -- Plaza -- Quai du Rosaire -- Beguinage -- Procession of the Virgin Mary -- Island -- Tombs of the Hetaerae -- Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes -- Alcestis -- Birth of Venus -- Bowl of Rosesn

Archaic Torso of Apollo -- Cretan Artemis -- Leda -- Dolphins -- Isle of the Sirens -- Lament for Antinous -- Death of the Beloved -- Lament for Jonathan -- Consolation of Elijah -- Saul among the Prophets -- Samuel's Visitation of Saul -- Prophet -- Jeremiah -- Sibyl -- Absalom's Downfall -- Esther -- Leper King -- Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead -- King of Munster -- Danse Macabre -- Last Judgment -- Temptation -- Alchemist -- Reliquary -- Gold -- Stylite -- Egyptian Mary -- Crucifixion -- Resurrected -- Magnificat -- Adam -- Eve -- Insane in the Garden -- Insane -- Prayer for the Lunatic and the Convict -- From the Life of a Saint -- Beggars -- Foreign Family -- Washing the Corpse -- One of the Old Ones -- Blind Man -- Wilted One -- Last Supper -- Scene of the Fire -- Group -- Snake Charming -- Black Cat -- Easter Eve -- Balcony -- Emigrant Ship -- Landscape -- Roman Campagna -- Song out of the Sea -- Night Journey -- Parrot Park -- Parks -- Portrait -- Venetian Morning -- Late Autumn in Venice -- San Marco -- Doge -- Lute -- Adventurer -- Falconry -- Corrida -- Don Juan's Childhood -- Don Juan's Selection -- Saint George -- Lady on a Balcony -- Encounter in the Avenue of Chestnuts -- Sisters -- Piano Practice -- Woman in Love -- Interior of a Rose -- Portrait of a Lady from the Eighties -- Lady before a Mirror -- Old Lady -- Bed -- Stranger -- Approach -- Sundial -- Opium Poppy -- Flamingos -- Persian Heliotrope -- Lullaby -- Pavilion -- Abduction -- Pink Hydrangea -- Coat of Arms -- The Bachelor -- Lone One -- The Reader -- The Apple Orchard -- Calling of Muhammad -- Mountain -- Ball -- Child -- Dog -- Scarab -- Buddha in Glory --

The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry

Penguin anthology of 20th century American poetry

Spoon River anthology: Hill ; Fiddler Jones ; Petit, the poet / Miniver Cheevy ; Mr. Flood's party / Creation / Poet ; Life's tragedy / Death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; Birches ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Tree at my window ; Directive / Patterns / Susie Asado ; Tender buttons: A box ; A plate / I sit and sew / Grass ; Cahoots / Peter Quince at the Clavier ; Disillusionment of ten o'clock ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Anecdote of the jar ; Emperor of ice-cream ; Of mere being / Fragment / Tract ; Danse Russe ; Red wheelbarrow ; Yachts ; Asphodel, that greeny flower Moonlight ; There will come soft rains

Jewel stairs' grievance ; River-merchants' wife : a letter ; In a station of the metro ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; Canto LXXXI: "Yet/Ere the season died a-cold") / Sea rose ; Helen ; Walls do not fall: ("An incident here and there") ; Hermetic definition: "Red rose and a beggar" : ("Why did you come") ; ("Take me anywhere--") ; ("Venice--Venus?") / Gale in April ; Shine, perishing republic ; Clouds at evening ; Credo / Fish ; Poetry ; Poetry / Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Preludes ; Waste land / If we must die ; Harlem dancer / Ars poetica / First fig ; Recuerdo / in Just- ; Buffalo Bill's ; Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; next to of course god america i ; somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond ; r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / Reapers ; November cotton flower ; Portrait in Georgia / Medusa ; New moon / Dark symphony ; Harlem gallery: Psi ("Black boy, / let me get up from the white man's table--") / Bridge: Proem : to Brooklyn Bridge ; II: Powhatan's daughter: The river / Silent poem

Negro speaks of rivers ; I, too ; Dream boogie ; Harlem / Incident ; To John Keats, poet, at spring time ; Yet do I marvel ; From the dark tower / Father and son ; Portrait ; Touch me / Musée des Beaux Arts ; Epitaph on a tyrant / My papa's waltz ; Waking ; In a dark time / The Maximus poems : I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you ; Distances / Fish ; Sestina ; First death in Nova Scotia ; Visits to St. Elizabeths ; One art / Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday ; Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle passage / Effort at speech between two people ; Then I saw what the calling was ; Poem as mask / Heavy bear who goes with me / The dream songs: ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") ; ("There sat down, once") ; ("This world is gradually becoming a place") ; Henry's understanding / 90 north ; Death of the ball turret gunner ; Woman at the Washington Zoo ; Next day / For my daughter / Different image / Traveling through the dark ; At the bomb testing site

Scars / For my people / Mother ; Song in the front yard ; Bean eaters ; Lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; Blackstone rangers / "To speak of woe that is in marriage" ; Skunk hour ; For the Union dead / Often I am permitted to return to a meadow ; My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan -- Populist manifesto / Parents / Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Hyacinth garden in Brooklyn ; August 1945 / Love calls us to the things of this world ; Cottage Street, 1953 ; Writer / Sheep child / Love song : I and thou / "More light! More light!" / Degrees of gray in Philipsburg ; Freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Poem unwritten ; Caedmon ; Swan in falling snow / American poetry / Muse of water / Fresh air ; Permanently

Morning swim ; How it is / Behaving like a Jew ; Dancing ; Another insane devotion / City limits ; Corsons Inlet / Snowfall in the afternoon ; Driving to town late to mail a letter ; Waking from sleep / Flower ; I know a man ; Language ; Rain ; Bresson's movies / Victor dog / Steps ; Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!") ; Day Lady died / Some trees ; Self-portrait in a convex mirror ; What is poetry / Bear ; After making love we hear footsteps ; Saint Francis and the sow / Air ; For the anniversary of my death ; Yesterday ; Chord / Blessing ; Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ; Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / My son my executioner ; Digging / Animals are passing from our lives ; They feed they lion ; You can have it ; Simple truth / Her kind ; Abortion ; Wanting to die ; In celebration of my uterus ; Rowing / Orion ; Planetarium ; Valediction forbidding mourning ; Twenty-one love poems: ("The rules break like a thermometer--")

Marriage / Hay for the horses ; Riprap ; Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Far cry from Africa ; Sea grapes ; The Schooner : Flight After the storm : "There's a fresh light that follows--") ; Light of the world ; Omeros: ("I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son--") / Let me tell you / Idea of ancestry / Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Agony. As now. ; SOS ; Black art / Wrong train ; Final sonnet / Power / poem at thirty / Prediction ; Night, the porch / Stone is nobody's / Singapore ; Summer day / Reunion ; Dead color ; California dreaming / homage to my hips ; [at last we killed the roaches] ; death of fred clifton ; to my last period / Poem about my rights / 1968

From my window ; Blades / Mechanic / Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Last affair : Bessie's blues song ; Grandfather ; Nightmare begins responsibility / Stone ; Fork ; Classic ballroom dances / Grandmother / Ellen West / Spring letter ; Two or three wishes / Allegory of the cave ; Tucson / History of my heart ; Questions ; Samurai song / Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / Introduction to poetry ; Dead / Allen Ginsberg ; Weakness / How to like it ; Lullaby / Song ; Pornographer ; Return of Robinson Jeffers / My life: A name trimmed with colored ribbons / Machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / But he was cool, or, He even stopped for green lights ; Poem to complement other poems / In memory of the Utah stars ; The accompanist

Language of the brag ; Lifting / Barbed wire / Black silk ; Under stars / I do not / Lost pilot / Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear ; Funeral / August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Turtle ; Bestiary / Childhood ideogram ; Winter stars / Looking for Judas / People of the other village / Ballad of Aunt Geneva ; Star-fix / Albany / Cuba, 1962 ; Kid ; Finished / Thanks ; Tu Do Street ; Facing it ; Nude interrogation / Song of the Andoumboulou : 21 / Gathering the bones together ; Two lines from the Brothers Grimm ; Origin of the marble forest / Reaching Yellow River / Away

Language lesson 1976 ; What he thought / In cold storm light / Calypso / Latin & soul / Miami heart / Iris / Why Ralph refuses to dance ; Girl friend poem #3 ; Crescent / Taking off my clothes / San Sepolcro / What the living do / She had some horses ; My house is the red earth / Legend / Begotten ; We were simply talking / Imagining their own hymns ; Song / Meeting the British ; Errata ; Throwback / Quinceañera / Parsley ; Daystar ; After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed ; Claudette Colvin goes to work / Our calling / Thinking of Galileo ; Hatred

Unholy sonnet 13 / Traveling onion ; Arabic ; Wedding cake / Nani ; England finally, like my mother always said we would / Nocturne : blue waves ; Unfinished / Field poem ; Oranges ; Black hair / Yellow stars and ice ; Forest / Brilliance ; Esta noche ; Bill's story / Black Nikes / Alcohol / To my brother ; "Love of my flesh, living death" / My wicked wicked ways ; Little clown, my heart / Jack Johnson does the eagle rock ; Crows in a strong wind ; I'm a fool to love you / Indian boarding school : the runaways / Spooning / How I got that name ; Composed near the Bay Bridge Survivor / Youngest daughter / Another reluctance ; Insect / Gift ; Eating together

Our lady ; As from a quiver of arrows / Bag of mice ; Cartoon physics, part 1 / Venus Hottentot ; Affirmative action blues Equinox / White elephants: Million balconies ; Train windows / What the orphan inherits ; Powwow at the end of the world / Hot combs ; Amateur fighter ; Flounder / Tantrum / Spare / Postfeminism ; Your one good dress / Quivira city limits ; Everywhere is out of town ; Whatever you want / At Pegasus ; Lady sings the blues

The Pushcart book of poetry : the best poems from three decades of the Pushcart Prize

Power / Peace in the Near East / Griots who knew Brer Fox / Spring / Variations on A mound of corpses in the snow / Musical shuttle / end of science fiction / Rabbit trace / sage of Apple Valley on love / We free singers be / All kinds of caresses / sleep / breaker / West Virginia sleep song / Everyone knows whom the saved envy / There is a dream dreaming us / From Sweeney Astray / Conversation by the body's light / Snow owl / Running away from home / Pig 311 / From Laughing with one eye / ritual of memories / Quinnapoxet / otter / Young women at Chartres / I remember Galileo / Portrait of the artists with Li Po / Breath / By the pool / Cantina music / Lagoon / Waiting in line / Floor / For Elizabeth Bishop / World breaking apart / I sing the body electric / From my window / journey / southern cross / Europa / snakes of September / Moles / I knew I'd sing / Procession / man of many L's / reedbeds of the Hackensack / That bright grey eye / Consolation / power of toads / trickle-down theory of happiness / explosion / Ground Zero / Ukiyo-E / fundamental project of technology / Birthday star atlas / Vesper sparrows / Rain country / poem with no ending / Wilderness / Turtle, swan / throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly / Don't go to the barn / noise the hairless make / Delfina Flores and her niece Modesta / I send moma home / Poland of death / That they were at the beach -- Aeolotropic series / garden of earthly delights / Le Petit Salvie / Four from the Bandelaire series / Lament for the makers / Cheer / Justice without passion / Tenderness / Miller epithalamium / May, 1986 / little death / Sequence / Interpretation of a poem by Frost / For you / love of travelers / Furious versions / Incident at Imuris / Miles weeping / Listening / Post-Larkin Triste / Ascension on Fire Island / vacant lot / Dying in Massaschusetts / Sesame / White boot / Sun spots / Seeing you / Mighty forms / Voigt woman who weeps / From the meadow / To a wren on calvary / I would call it derangement / My father's body / Reading with the poets / Ray / Note I left for Gerald Stern / Old Testament / In the land of the lotus eaters / A. M. : the hopeful monster / Coleman Valley Road / Guilt trip / Suite for Emily / portrait of the self as nation, 1990-1991 / Lost brilliance / Twice removed / Salt / Song / Something like happiness / Film noir : train trip out of metropolis / deconstruction of Emily Dickinson / Sadness, an improvisation / Anna Liffey / history of paisley / wood near Athens / dog was crying tonight in Wicklow also / button box / Japan / Aliens / Below Fourteenth Street / No turn on red / Karma lollipop / For the young men who died of AIDS / What the animals teach us / Black legs / Vous Etes Plus Beaux Que Vous Ne Pensiez / lectures on love / book of the dead man #87 / Histories of bodies / Like God / Once a shoot of heaven / cup / Mitch / Gravitas / Also love you / sky blue dress / Sand, flies & fish / All the aphrodisiacs / My dead dad / Biblical also-rans / workforce / Penumbra / To grasp the nettle / Jasper, Texas, 1998 / Memory / short history of the shadow / Inheritance / Limen / Beetles / Inventory / Cock Robin / church of omnivorous light / Red berries / Sonnet / part of the bee's body embedded in the flesh / Autochthonic song / Primer of words / dragon / Commerce / Is / Cain's legacy / Adept / Wonder : red beans and Ricely / Landscape with hungry gulls / Horseflies / My brother, Antonio, the baker / Can't you hear the wind howl? / Beetle orgy / Rose of Sharon / Best and only / Mediterranean / Bright world / Elevens / On the reality of the symbol

Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks

Introduction: Of memory and revision / Foreword / Child-free / Barbed wire / I, too, am the mother / The unmother / Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Motherhood / First journey / Daystar / My mother's clothes / Washer woman / Tax deadline / Fixing face / [Untitled] / Milk bath / Horse and carriage on the plaza / A slip into history / My face / blk(s) / The night after you have been fired from your job / A burning lesson / She was my first / Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday

Sister Flossie's jam / Recipe / Radio / For the lover who eats my poems ... / To be in love / To be / Knife in the wall / Chalk / When your silence will not save you / Fine art school / Combatives / Stay / Abracadabra / Psalm 23 at 15 / Visitation one / Dog in a dead man's house / Babes / On Spring / Bitter winter / Suicide one / Lovely love / Sweet stalk / Genetic codes / The Samaritan woman / Look behind / Deuce and a quarter / Convenience / Anacostia suite / Sold to the man with the mouth / Kenny's friend / Run Johnny run / Foun(d) poem / Silly stories / Dying of laughter / Sleep smoking / Five belly buttons / Yaakov's jackets / The hammers / Mama Gwendolyn kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus on de forehead / Civility / Tribal differences / Players online dating service / Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. goes to heaven / Looking for Venture Smith / Sonnet for Gordon Parks / Oriki for John Oliver Killens

Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks / Quatrain for Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/LaQuan McDonald / Many sons, many mothers / A depraved indifference 2 human life / The short answer / A neighborhood boy / Rite of passag / We real / Roots / News item : police seek African-American man / History of static / East Texas blues / Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / We real / WWW2015 / The tragedies / Skin / Keloid cells / Landscape with chalk-marked silhouette / Everyday horrors / When racism dies / Overheard at tea, near Kensington and DeVeers, London / A feast of whispers / In praise of wisdom / Halloween / Who needs the stars if the full moon loves you? / Prayer for Jordan / The corner / A deaf old lady / Street woman / Black woman in Russia / Artwork gallery ; Recollections / Urban couple / The tenant / Meanwhile, a Lawndale girl burns cornbread / R. Taylor's Project girl / Final frontier / Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the Mecca / The last supper / Second Ave. ceiling / Steel canary / Crime in Bluesville / Eating in the after life / Hotel Hades / Lincoln Cemetery / The blinking apple / & later / Geometry / Cedar / Fun in the backyard / Day 4, somewhere between Athens and Serifos, Greece / June 9, Serifos, Greece / Blackbirding / Seven years

Testifying / Language of the unheard / Jazz June / To the recorder of history / A note on Gwendolyn Brooks / Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks / Nobody knows my name / A haiku for Gwendolyn Brooks / Journaling with Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : a pastiche of poetic reports on her life & works / The weight of the word / Baggage / Smolder / Artist statements. Anecdote / Reflections : experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Reflection / Gwendolyn Brooks reminiscence / Being born into Brooks / Description of portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks / My Gwendolyn Brooks experience / Remembrance / Finding my own sunset and thoughts on reading Gwendolyn Brooks / My first contact with Gwendolyn Brook / A slice of prose for Gwendolyn Brooks, poet / To make a thing sing and mean : reflections on Gwendolyn Brooks / Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / A Bluesviile tribute for Gwendolyn Brooks / Brooks biography. We remember Sunday : portrait of the artist as an ancestor / Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015

The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse,

Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

The choice / The English race / The thirsty poet / Of all the torments, all the cares / The despairing lover / The resolve / False though she be to me and love / A hue and cry after fair Amoret / Ah stay, ah turn, ah whither would you fly / Nil Admirari / An English padlock / To a child of quality five years old / A letter to the Honourable Lady Miss Margaret ... / Written in the beginning of Mezeray's History of France / An epitaph / Answer to Cloe Jealous / Love and reason / For my own monument / Jinny the Just / Me Cupid made a happy slave / Italy and Britain / Blenheim / Pastoral hymn / When all thy mercies / The spacious firmament on high / How are thy servants blest, O Lord / The portrait / The petition for an absolute retreat / The tree / A nocturnal reverie / The day of judgment / God's dominion and decrees / True riches / Crucifixion to the world by the Cross of Christ / A prospect of heaven makes death easy / Man frail, and God eternal / Against quarreling and fighting / Against idleness and mischief / The sluggard / A cradle hymn / Chloe / Baucis and Philemon / In sickness / Stella's birth-day / A soldier and a scholar / Critics / Verses on the death of Dr. Swift / Ode on solitude / Paraphrase on Thomas à Kempis / A little learning / Poetical numbers / Windsor Forest / Field sports / The toilet / Ombre at Hampton Court / To a young lady / Honest fame / To Mr. Jervas / Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady / Eloisa / Hector and Andromache / The pyre of Patroclus / Priam and Achilles / Ulysses and his dog / To Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer / To Mrs. M.B. on her birth-day / On a certain lady at court / Hope springs eternal / Whatever is, is right / Know then thyself / Life's poor play / Charity / Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke / The Duke of Buckingham / Timon's villa / The gem and the flower / Characters of Women / Woman's ruling passions / Heaven's last best work / Why did I write / Verbal critics / Atticus / Bufo / The court of Charles II / The poet's use / Satire / The triumph of dullness / Pastoral landscape / A winter-piece / Fragment of Sappho / To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms / To Signora Cuzzoni / Colin's complaint / Cato's address to his troops in Lybia / Pompey and Cornelia / A hymn to contentment / When thy beauty appears / A night-piece on death / Blouzelinda's funeral / The great frost / Sweet William's farewell to Black-ey'd Susan / Mr. Pope's welcome from Greece / To a lady / The fox at the point of death / Where I laid on Greenland's coast / Youth's the season made for joys / Love in her eyes sits playing / O ruddier than the cherry / Think of dress in ev'ry light / To the Earl of Warwick / Thou dome, where Edward first enroll'd / Fairies / Colin and Lucy / A reply to an imitation of the second ode ... / To a lady / The rose-bud / The ballad of Sally in our alley / In good King Charles's golden days -- The poet's wish: an ode / My Peggy is a young thing / A dainty song / The Braes of Yarrow / Away, let nought to love displeasing / The Retirement -- When none shall rail / On the setting up Mr. Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey / Epigram on Miltonicks / On Blenheim House / On Sir John Vanbrugh / Time's changes / Italian opera / The life of a beau / The bastard's lot / To a young lady / The lover: a ballad / In answer to a lady who advised retirement / Characters of women / Night / Procrastination / Happiness an art / Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / A pastoral / Epigram on Handel and Bononcini / Extempore verses / Extempore verses upon a trial of skill ... / Careless content / Contentment, or The happy workman's song / Hymn for Christmas Day / The desponding soul's wish / The blind boy / Sweet are the charms of her I love / The Fly / Approach of winter / A winter scene / Frost at night / Spring flowers / Birds in spring / Summer morning / Happy Britannia / Summer evening and night / Lavinia / Moonlight in autumn / Love of nature / Hymn on solitude / Britannia's empire / British commerce / Rule Britannia / Verses occasioned by the death of Dr. Aikman / Tell me, thou soul of her I love / To the Reverend Mr. Murdoch / The land of indolence / A witching song / A wondrous show / Sons of indolence / Indifference to fortune / The praise of industry / William and Margaret / The Birks of Endermay / Grongar Hill / The enquiry / The ruins of Rome / English weather / The wool trade / A nation's wealth / British commerce / On presenting to a lady a white rose and a red on the tenth of June / Hare-hunting / An address to his elbow-chair / A cure for the spleen / On even keel / Hunting song / The roast beef of Old England / A song in praise of Old English roast beef / Hunting song / Verses written in a Lady's Sherlock upon death / Advice to a Lady in autumn / The old General / An epigram of Martial, imitated / An ode on Miss Harriet Hanbury

A pipe of tobacco / Blest leaf / The fire side: a pastoral soliloquy / God save the King -- Will he no come back again -- Church and church-yard at night / Friendship / The home of the Naiads / Blest winter nights / When Delia on the plain appears / To the memory of a lady / The landskip / Pastoral ballad / Elegy / Written at an inn at Henley / Poverty in London / An epitaph upon the celebrated Claudy Philips / Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick / The scholar's life / Charles XII / Life's last scene / Prayer / A short song of congratulation / On the death of Mr. Robert Levet / Invocation to the genius of Greece / Nature's influence on man / Benevolence / Ode to the evening star / England, unprepared for war / Inscription for a grotto / Ye powers unseen, to whom the bards of Greece / Early influences / Poets / Ode to simplicity / How sleep the brave, who sink to rest / Ode to evening / The passions, an ode for music / Ode on the death of Thomson / Dirge in Cymbeline / Ode on the popular superstitions ... / The charms of nature / Invocation to fancy / The island of the blest / Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College / Hymn to adversity / On the death of Richard West / Ode on the death of a favorite cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes / Elegy in a country church-yard / The progress of posey / The bard / Ode on the pleasure arising from vicissitude / Ye golden lamps of heav'n, farewell / Dum vivimus, vivamus / Thou hidden love of God / A morning hymn / Wrestling Jacob / O thou who camest from above / On a family picture / True ambition / Ode to wisdom / To Stella / Solitude / Night / To Mr. Gray / Heart of Oak / Love thy country, wish it well / The critic's rules / A critical fribble / On himself / Conscience / There was a jolly miller once / How happy were my days, till now / The je ne scay quoi / The enthusiast: an ode / On friendship / A prayer for indifference / Shipwreck / The tears of Scotland / Ode to leven-water / Independence / Verses written during the war 1756-1763 / A song to David / On a bed of Guernsey lilies / Spring / Day: a pastoral / The miller / An elegy on that glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize / Memory / Hope / Real happiness / France / Happiness dependent on ourselves / Elegy on the death of a mad dog / When lovely woman stoops to folly / Auburn / Blest Retirement / The village Parson / The village schoolmaster / Farewell to poetry / Edmund Burke / David Garrick / Sir Joshua Reynolds / The Friar of Orders Gray / Letter containing a Panegyric on Bath / Anne Grenville, Countess Temple ... / To Lady Anne Fitzpatrick ... / Ode to a friend / Landscape / A plaintive sonnet flow'd from Milton's pen / The solemn noon of night / Deem not, devoid of elegance, the sage / From Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic art / Ah, what a weary race my feet have run / Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold's painted window at New College, Oxford / Solitude / Nature's charms / Nature and the poets / The flowers of the forest / The flowers of the forest / Ode: to the cuckoo / The evening primrose / Apology for vagrants / Time's balm / Bristowe tragedie / Mynstrelles songe / An excelente balade of Charitie / A wild romantic dell / Sunset / Cumnor Hall / There's nae luck about the house / Braid Claith / Tullochgorum / The braes of Yarrow / Auld Robin Gray / A Persian song of Hafiz / A moral tetrasitch / Had I a heart for falsehood fram'd / Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen / Indeed, my Caelia, tis in vain / The Duke of Benevento / The British Grenadiers -- The drum / A prayer, living and dying / The name of Jesus / Walking with God / Lovest thou me / Light shining out of darkness / The shrubbery / Simple faith / The statesman in retirement / Absence of occupation / The diverting history of John Gilpin / On the loss of the Royal George / The poplar-field / Slaves cannot breathe in England / England / Winter / Evening / Winter Scene / On the receipt of my mother's picture out of Norfolk / Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin / To Mary / The castaway / Life / Books / Crusty critics / Truth in poetry / The parish poor-house / A card of invitation to Mr. Gibbon, at Brighthelmstone / Conversation / Sonnet written at the close of spring / Sonnet To Oxford / Sonnet To Valclusa / Could then the babes from yon unshelter'd cot / On this lone isle / The maniac

O time, who know'st a lenient hand to lay / Sonnet at Dover Cliffs / Sonnet at Ostend / To Hope / To spring / How sweet I roam'd from field to field / My silks and fine array / To the Muses / Piping down the valleys wild / The echoing green / The lamb / The shepherd / The little black boy / Nurse's song / Holy Thursday / The divine image / Night / Hear the voice of the bard / The tiger / The clod and the pebble / Ah, sun-flower / Never seek to tell thy love / A cradle song / Epistle to James Smith / Halloween / The Cotter's Saturday night / To a mouse / Epistle to Davie, a brother poet / Address to the Unco Guid / Epistle to Dr. Blacklock / Tam o' Shanter / Green grow the rashes, O / Mary Morison / Auld Lang Syne / John Anderson my Jo / The silver tassie / Of a' the airts / Tam Glen / Thou lingering star / Highland Mary / The banks o' Doon / Ye flowery banks / Ae fond kiss / A red, red rose / Bonnie Lesley / Duncan Gray / Scots wha hae / Is there for honest poverty / O, wert thou in the cauld blast / My mother bids me bind my hair / O tell me how to woo thee / Vegetable loves / Steam power / Immortal nature / Apple dumplings and a King / Rondeau / Poor Tom, or the sailor's epitaph / A wish / Inscription on a grot / Lines written near Richmond / Swans / The Swiss peasant / The Della Cruscans / Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine / Songs of the pixies / To a young ass / Reflections / Inscription for a tablet on the banks of a stream / Written on a Sunday morning / The soldier's wife / The widow / Sapphics / The soldier's friend / Song by Rogero, in The Rovers

National Geographic book of animal poetry : 200 poems that squeak, soar, and roar : with favorites from Robert Frost, Jack Prelutsky, Emily Dickinson, and more

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Welcome to the world -- The big ones -- The little ones -- The winged ones -- The water ones -- The strange ones -- The noisy ones -- The quiet ones -- Final thought -- Writing poems about animals.

Welcome to the world. The egg / by Jack Prelutsky -- The tickle rhyme / by Ian Serraillier -- What's a caterpillar? / by Graham Denton -- Cocoon / by David McCord -- Haiku / by Joan Bransfield Graham --

The big ones. Buffalo dusk / by Carl Sandburg -- Wedding bears / by J. Patrick Lewis -- The purple cow / by Gelett Burgess -- Cow / by Valerie Worth -- A farmer's boy / by anonymous -- The cow / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- The pasture / by Robert Frost -- Dear orangutan / by David Elliott -- Moose / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Song of a bear : a Navajo poem -- Grandpa bear's lullaby / by Jane Yolen -- Elephant / by anonymous -- Eletelephony / by Laura E. Richards -- Elephant / by Ann Whitford Paul -- Anthology / by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer -- The whales off Wales / by X.J. Kennedy -- Polar bear rap / by J. Patrick Lewis -- Polar bear / by Leland Blair Jacobs -- Moody guy / by Avis Harley -- The white rhinoceros / by Stephen Mitchell -- Tiger / by anonymous -- Giraffe / by Valerie Worth -- Above all / by Avis Harley -- The hippopotamus / by Hilaire Belloc -- The horses / by Maxine Kumin -- The horseman / by Walter de la Mare -- Horses / by Aileen Fisher -- The white horse / by D.H. Lawrence -- Mountain gorilla / by Janet S. Wong --

The little ones. Ladybug / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Ants / by Marilyn Singer -- Solitude / by Charles Simic -- Dragonfly / by Georgia Heard -- Grasshoppers three : an old song -- Little fish / by D.H. Lawrence -- The caterpillar / by Douglas Florian -- Caterpillar / by Tony Johnston -- The butterfly / by John Fuller -- Butterfly / by Benjamin Franklin -- Cockroach sandwich / by Colin McNaughton -- The scorpion / by Hilaire Belloc -- Inchworm / by Michael J. Rosen -- Inch by inch / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Rich lizard / by Deborah Chandra -- The chipmunk / by Ogden Nash -- Spruce woods / by A.R. Ammons -- Squirrel forgets / by Lilian Moore -- Polliwogs / by Kristine O'Connell George -- Oh the toe-test! / by Norma Farber -- The spider is a lovely lady / by Frank Asch -- I am a snail / by anonymous -- From the snail / by William Cowper -- Riddle / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Snail / by X.J. Kennedy -- Bee / by X.J. Kennedy -- The pedigree of honey / by Emily Dickinson -- Move over / by Lilian Moore -- A bee / by Matsuo Basho; translated by Robert Hass -- A mouse of my acquaintance / by anonymous -- The city mouse and the garden mouse / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Hamster hide-and-seek / by Avis Harley --

The winged ones. Three little owls who sang hymns / by anonymous -- A wise old owl : a nursery rhyme -- Haiku / by anonymous -- I talk with the moon / by Beverly McLoughland -- Gray Goose / by Julie Larrios -- Moon geese / by Ann Turner -- What was that? / by David L. Harrison -- De grey goose / by Huddie Ledbetter -- Puzzling / by William Cole -- Blue jay / by Janet S. Wong -- The blackbird / by Humbert Wolfe -- Dust of snow / by Robert Frost -- The eagle / by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Mother's plea / by Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Coastal bats / by Calef Brown -- A warbler / by Walter de la Mare -- The saddest noise / by Emily Dickinson -- Birds in the garden / by anonymous -- From sing-song / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Inuit song / translated by Edward Field, after Nakasuk -- Haiku / by anonymous -- Visitor / by Kristine O'Connell George -- You can talk about your hummingbirds / by Arnold Adoff -- Hummingbird / by Janet S. Wong -- Haiku / by J.W. Hackett -- Arrivals / by Ann Turner -- The white egret / by Paul Janeczko -- The parrot / by anonymous --

The water ones. The penguin / by Oliver Herford -- Penguins / by Charles Ghigna -- Lost in the cold / by anonymous -- Anemone / by Jane Yolen -- The starfish / by David McCord -- Seal / by William Jay Smith -- The performing seal / by Rachel Field -- Seal lullaby / by Rudyard Kipling -- The walrus / by Jack Prelutsky -- The eel / by Ogden Nash -- Beavers in November / by Marilyn Singer -- There was an old person of Hyde / by Edward Lear -- Young Prince Pinch / by Avis Harley -- The crab / by Conrad Aiken -- Happy the ocean / by anonymous -- Sea turtle / by anonymous -- Turtles / by Charles Ghigna -- The shark / by Lord Alfred Douglas -- About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi -- Sea jelly / by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman -- Do oysters sneeze? / by Jack Prelutsky -- Mussel / by Steven Withrow -- Don't call alligator long-mouth till you cross river / by John Agard -- The crocodile / by Lewis Carroll -- Dark meat / by anonymous --

The strange ones. Moray eel / by Steven Withrow -- All you oughta know about a piranha / by Michael J. Rosen -- The ostrich / by Ogden Nash -- The ostrich is a silly bird / by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- I am a baby porcupette / by Joyce Sidman -- Porcupine / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- The octopus / by Ogden Nash -- Seahorse / by Blake Morrison -- What is the opposite of pillow? / by Richard Wilbur -- The argument / by Bobbi Katz -- The anteater / by Douglas Florian -- Travel plans / by Bobbi Katz -- The meerkats of Africa / by Gavin Ewart -- Sand ghost / by Betsy Franco -- Frilled lizard / by Alice Schertle -- The yak / by Hilaire Belloc -- How to tell a camel / by J. Patrick Lewis -- Skunk / by Lilian Moore -- A flamingo is / by J. Patrick Lewis -- A blue-footed booby / by Michael J. Rosen -- Spoonbill haiku / by Jane Yolen -- How to paint a zebra / by anonymous -- Zebra / by Gavin Ewart -- Zebra / by Judith Thurman -- A promise / by Bobbi Katz -- A centipede was happy quite / by anonymous -- Vanishing act / by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer -- Proboscis monkey ponders man / by Alice Schertle --

The noisy ones. The frog / by Hilaire Belloc -- The bull / by Alice Schertle -- Bull and ox / by anonymous -- Crickets / by Myra Cohn Livingston -- Splinter / by Carl Sandburg -- Crickets / by Harry Behn -- Why pigs cannot write poems / by John Ciardi -- Pig / by Richard Edwards -- Piety / by Ambrose Bierce -- Summertime / by Myra Cohn Livingston -- Unpopular Rex / by X.J. Kennedy -- Dog / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- The breed you need / by Bobbi Katz -- The greater cats / by V. Sackville-West -- You've got male / by Avis Harley -- Lion / by Janet S. Wong -- A picture of the rooster / by Tang Yin -- Raccoon / by Janet S. Wong -- From road-song of the bandar-log / by Rudyard Kipling -- From the law of the jungle / by Rudyard Kipling -- Why wolves howl / by anonymous -- Jack A / by J. Patrick Lewis -- The donkey : a nursery rhyme -- Visiting an old friend / by Charles Waters --

The quiet ones. Rabbit / by Mary Ann Hoberman -- Four ducks on a pond / by William Allingham -- Firefly / by Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Luna moth / by J. Patrick Lewis -- The warning / by Adelaide Crapsey -- Home to roost / by Kay Ryan -- The hens / by Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Haiku / by Kristine O'Connell George -- Cat in the snow / by Aileen Fisher -- Fog / by Carl Sandburg -- Haiku / by Avis Harley -- Two cats / by anonymous -- Sunning / by James S. Tippett -- Pet snake / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Dressing like a snake / by Georgia Heard -- Snake / by Barbara Juster Esbensen -- The panther / by Ogden Nash -- Coyote landscape / by Jane Yolen -- I saw a sloth play soccer / by Kenn Nesbitt --

Final thoughts. Animals / by Walt Whitman -- Hurt no living thing / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Magic words : an Inuit poem / translated by Edward Field -- Make the earth your companion / by J. Patrick Lewis -- Writing poems about animals.